a. 1. Incapable of being suffered, borne, or endured; insupportable; unendurable; intolerable; as, insufferable heat, cold, or pain; insufferable wrongs. Locke. [ 1913 Webster ]
2. Offensive beyond endurance; detestable. [ 1913 Webster ]
A multitude of scribblers who daily pester the world with their insufferable stuff. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. [ Cf. F. souffrable. ] 1. Able to suffer or endure; patient. [ Obs. ] “Ye must be sufferable.” Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]
2. That may be suffered, tolerated, or permitted; allowable; tolerable. [ 1913 Webster ]
-- Suf"fer*a*ble*ness, n. -- Suf"fer*a*bly, adv. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. Insufferable. [ Obs. ] Hooker. -- Un*suf"fer*a*bly, adv. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]